After completing his studies in human medicine in 1993, Franz Immer successfully completed his education as Heart and Thoracic Vascular Surgeon. In 2007, he obtained the Vena Docendi of the University of Bern, where he worked as senior Physician and Head of Clinical Research in the clinic for Heart and Vascular Surgery under the lead of Prof. T. Carrel. Since May 1st 2008, Franz Immer is the Director of Swisstransplant, Swiss National Foundation for Organ Donation and Transplantation, Bern, Switzerland. He is involved as an expert in the fields of organ, tissue and cell donation as well as transplantation in numerous committees. As Switzerland's delegate to the Council of Europe, he chaired the European Committee on Organ Transplantation (CD-P-TO) from 2020 to 2021. He also chaired the FOEDUS platform (European Organ Exchange Organisation), an association of European countries to promote the cross-border exchange of organs, from 2020 to 2024.